I agree that it's not very useful. I can imagine that it was required when we had the updn and ndn index because the underlying B+Tree requires an ordered key.
But please note that Rdn still needs to implement Comparable because they are used as part of the key in the RDN index. Kind Regards, Stefan On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > the compareTo method has a semantic that probably does not applies to the Dn > class : either two DNs are equals, or they are different, but they aren't > superior or inferior, except if one is the parent of the other. > > As we already have a isParent and isChild methods, I suggest we remove the > compareTo() methods (which is never used) and not implemen the > Comparable<Dn> interface. > > Thoughts ? > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > >
